It's been briefed repeatedly before (and other countries too like Ghana and Albania who rubbished the stories). But this seems to be a formal announcement. And Rwanda have previously signed a deal to do this with Denmark.
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Papers have been briefed that Govt will announce tomorrow that asylum seekers will be flown to centres in Rwanda for the claims to be assessed. Sending people fleeing from persecution to a dictatorship that repeatedly violates human rights might just be a new low.
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That bleeding heart liberal David Davis tried to amend the Nationality and Borders Bill to stop the Govt offshoring due it being v expensive, not stopping dangerous journeys, +, in the case of Australia, the only country to do it at scale, numerous physical/sexual abuse scandals
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Here's more info on the disastrous Australian offshoring programme. https://www.ein.org.uk/news/academic-report-finds-australian-model-offshore-processing-asylum-seekers-which-uk-proposes …
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What the fuck happens if they're seeking asylum from Rwanda?! This is so sick.
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My hope here is that the deal is largely a stunt and a combo of the civil service and the courts render it moot. But that this is the Govt's idea of a good stunt just shows what a bunch of moral degenerates they are.
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Do read
@ZoeJardiniere's thread on this too. It is an utterly toxic policy.https://twitter.com/ZoeJardiniere/status/1514490440040554502?t=6hrLre-QcvDuiJwCbsoUcA&s=19 …
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Had lots of replies saying it's a "dead cat" to distract from the parties and/or a vote winner. On the first they've been trying to do this for years + pushing a bill through to allow it so I sadly don't think it's mere distraction (though that doesn't mean it will happen).
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As to whether the announcement would be popular. I haven't seen polling but I wouldn't assume it would be. There's definitely an audience for it + it might be a majority. But attitudes have changed on asylum + refugees in recent years.
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OK here's some polling when the idea was suggested with Ascension Island. Slight plurality support but not significant.https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1311334834904748032?t=FYLVO4qbEhg4WWduZgUipw&s=19 …
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And majority opposed to the idea in abstract in another YouGov poll (via
@PME_Politics). It's certainly not a wildly popular idea.pic.twitter.com/41dlg04D5j
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Helpful thread from Sunder with lots more detail and many questions for the Government.https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1514483776855977984?t=G-StgWggFSjuyqUstw05-Q&s=19 …
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Seems likely that the aid budget is being used to subsidise the Rwanda offshoring policy just in case it wasn't already objectionable enough.https://twitter.com/willrworley/status/1514515296983388160?t=J5yFCiT5ycyjRaDf75hq4g&s=19 …
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There we go doesn't even have plurality support. And the Q underplays the severity of the policy as it implies successful applicants would be allowed back to the UK.https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1514590971354308610?t=z0UwjA7xNcg-7xBrH8vzRw&s=19 …
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Just an unbelievably bad policy even if you don't have a fundamental ethical problem with the idea. It will *help* smuggling gangs by giving them a new market.https://twitter.com/cjayanetti/status/1514597015895773184?t=Yw2vYkiYgTc7OjocJ3EAHw&s=19 …
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Sorry I know I'm doing a lot of tweets about this but God it's such a bad policy on every level.
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